Lecture: "Back to the Future: Recreating Anatolian Carpets from Renaissance Paintings" with Ali Riza Tuna, 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 Los Angeles
In many of their masterpieces, Renaissance painters depicted some of the most beautiful Anatolian carpets that have not survived to our time. Through research and art historical comparisons, Ali Tuna, along with his rug-weaving colleagues, has reconstructed, in original knotting technique, the designs of three carpets depicted in famous renaissance paintings by Vittorio Ghirlandaio, Piero della Francesca and Lorenzo Lotto. These carpets have been woven at true scale, and provide new visual and aesthetic experiences. The methodology of recreating the carpets today also answers several questions about the way these painters have rendered the reality of the carpets and the importance of the carpets in the overall composition and color scheme of the paintings. Progran details: www.tmasc.org